IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2871

Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2870

Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You Are a Woman? An Economic Analysis of Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

Supriya Sarnikar, Todd A. Sorensen, Ronald L. Oaxaca

research from this working paper published separately as 'Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines' in: American Economic Review , 2012, 102 (3), 256–260 and as 'Do you receive a lighter prison sentence because you are a woman or a white? An economic analysis of the federal criminal sentencing guidelines' in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2014, 14 (1), 1-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2869

Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Ana C. Dammert

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2867

Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia

Umut Oguzoglu

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2866

Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed

Gulcin Gumus, Tracy L. Regan

revised version published in: Inquiry, 2013, 50 (4), 275-295.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2865

Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Lex Borghans, Ben Kriechel

published in: Edward Lazear and Katryn Shaw (eds.), The Structure of Wages: An International Comparisons, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2864

Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002

Mariano Bosch, William F. Maloney

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2863

Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

Joseph Price, Justin Wolfers

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125(4), 1859-1887

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2862

A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice

Rainald Borck, Michael P. Pflüger, Matthias Wrede

published in revised form in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (6), 913 - 940

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2861

How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment

Erkki Koskela, Ronnie Schöb

published as 'Is Tax Progression Good for Employment? Efficiency Wages and the Role of the Prereform Tax Structure' in: FinanzArchiv, 2009, 65 (1), 51 - 72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2860

Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales

Arthur van Soest, Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2858

Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Santanu Chatterjee, Paola Giuliano, Ilker Kaya

published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2855

Why Are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?

Anna Maria Mayda

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 160-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2853

First Time Parents’ Paid Work Patterns in Amsterdam: Father’s Part-Time Work, Family’s Immigrant Background and Mother’s Work for Pay When the Infant Is Very Young

Cécile Wetzels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2852

Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92

Sarmistha Pal, Sugata Ghosh

published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2851

Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries

Christophe Rault, Robert Sova, Anamaria Sova

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16(15), 1547-1554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2850

Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley MacLeod, Daniel Parent

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (1), 1-49

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2849

Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime: Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany

Karsten Kohn, Alexander C. Lembcke

published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv/Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2007, 1 (3-4), 247-261